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As team owner, GM and coach of the Red Deer Rebels, Brent Sutter has lost plenty of sleep worrying about protecting his players from COVID-19.

You can only imagine how much harder it was to learn his son, Vancouver Canucks forward Brandon, has it.

“We FaceTimed last night and he was pretty down and out, feeling pretty sick,” said Sutter via telephone. “Brandon has tested positive and he’s got symptoms — body aches, headaches, chills — just like you have the flu. I guess each guy is different in terms of how it affects you, especially with this Brazilian variant. For younger people to get this sick, it’s scary.”

Scarier still is not knowing if Brandon passed it on to his family before he joined the list of Canucks on the NHL’s COVID Protocol List, which is now 16 players long.

“His wife is pregnant and they have a two-year-old and three-year-old — he’s obviously concerned about them,” said Sutter.

“He wants to make sure they can stay away from this. He’s moved into the basement of his house so he can be separated from them. He’s doing what he’s supposed to be doing. They were just told to get into quarantine and have the wife and kids go down to the rink to get tested every day. There’s a lot to this, what the families have to do now. We’re keeping fingers crossed.”

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article...tles-covid-19/